Jan 22, 2021In with the NewThoughts on Transitioning to a New Industry as a Product Manager At the best of times, company transitions are exhilarating — fear, excitement, hesitation, confidence, nostalgia, and more swirl around your brain. A cocktail of adrenaline, endorphins, and neurotransmitters course through you, even before you begin your first day, as…Product Management5 min readProduct Management5 min read
Nov 30, 2020The 8 Do’s and 500 Don’ts of Interviewing Product ManagersHow to Use Empathy, Time Management, and Curiosity to Judge PM Candidates Much like Bart’s experience with not doing what Donny Don’t does, the PM interview process (and often the role itself!) is highly dependent on the company context. Unfortunately, that’s a recipe for murkiness and opacity in the interview…Product Management4 min readProduct Management4 min read
Nov 16, 2020Enterprise Fun and GamesA Different Way to Think About “Gamifying” Enterprise B2B Software There are many things I don’t understand about myself. The one I want to focus on today is why I continue playing a video game that I’ve already beaten. …Product Management5 min readProduct Management5 min read
Nov 10, 2020“You’re Just an Ad Tech Person” — How Advertising Produces Great Product ManagersDemanding Users, Rapid Innovation, and Data Saturation in a Polarizing Field — I don’t use an ad blocker on my work laptop. Why would I? I have to make sure I can view our test creatives that target only my user_id (we built an internal tool to autogenerate a user_id and inject it into the database our campaigns use for targeting) to…Product Management4 min readProduct Management4 min read
